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The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.

. Hatred unto the truth did always falsely report and calumniate all godly men's doings. Strype. Syn. asperse; slander; defame; vilify; traduce; belie; bespatter; blacken; libel. See Asperse.

An open level tract of country; especially "Campagna di Roma." The extensive undulating plain which surrounds Rome.

Open country. Sir W. Temple.

an obs. form of began, imp. & p. p. of Begin, sometimes used in old poetry.

llery. The ringing of bells and roaring of cannonry proclaimed his course through the country. W. Irving.

cclesiastical authority. Various canons which were made in councils held in the second centry. Hock.

or which capital punishment or puplic penance decreed by the canon was inflicted, as idolatry, murder, adultery, heresy.

A district comprising a hundred villages, as in Wales. [Written also kantry.]

A coarse cloth so woven as to form regular meshes for working with the needle, as in tapestry, or worsted work.

-- To set one's cap, to make a fool of one. (Obs.) Chaucer. -- To set one's cap for, to try to win the favor of a man with a view to marriage. [Colloq.]

The seat of government; the chief city or town in a country; a metropolis. "A busy and splendid capital" Macauly.

a secret political association in Italy, organized in the early part of the nineteenth centry for the purpose of changing the government into a republic.

A churl; a boor; a peasant or countryman. [Obs.] Shak.

The occupation or work of a carpenter; the act of workingin timber; carpentry.

To transfer from one place (as a country, book, or column) to another; as, to carry the war from Greece into Asia; to carry an account to the ledger; to carry a number in adding figures.

tage. -- Carrying trade, the business of transporting goods, etc., from one place or country to another by water or land; freighting. We are rivals with them in . . . the carrying trade. Jay.

A small country house.

One who is skilled in, or given to, casuistry. The judment of any casuist or learned divine concerning the state of a man's soul, is not sufficient to give him confidence. South.

Of or pertaining to casuists or casuistry.